18/05/2017:
ANNOUNCING The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces: Foundations, User Modeling, and Common Modality Combinations. Volume 1
EDITORS: Oviatt, Sharon; Schuller, Bjorn; Cohen, Philip R; Sonntag, Daniel; Potamianos, Gerasimos; Krueger, Antonio
PUBLISHER: Morgan and Claypool/ACM Press.
This is a THREE volume series that presents the definitive state of the art and future directions of the field of Multimodal and Multi-Sensor interfaces.

26/01/2017:Kick-off ERICS in EIT Digital Infrastructure; we will adapt the digital manufacturing architecture to the ERICS usecases of real-time multimodal interaction and interactive machine learning with crowd-sourcing options.

27/10/2016:DFKI conducted a user study regarding the evaluation of the handwriting and gesture recognition systems used in Smart Factories. The study was carried out in cooperation with MyScript and attracted a total of 120 participants.

05/09/2016:Michael Barz participates in The International School on Human-Centred Computing (HCC 2016) and demonstrates our gaze-based techniques towards spatial reasoning in smart factories.

13/05/2016:Joint press release of Volkswagen AG and DFKI: Volkswagen participates in DFKI and becomes a partner (shareholder). In a joint carrier project for cps for smart factories, Volkswagen and DFKI have started to develop a software framework to allow for new collaborative HRI (human-robot interaction) scenarios.

06/05/2016:Mehdi Moniri presents DFKI's smart factories Baxter demonstrator Eyebots to Joachim Gauck, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. See the future scenario of this human-robot interaction demo here.

01/01/2015:CPS for Smart Factories integrates the EIT cPAS activity and focuses on combined use cases in the steel and robot domain. We welcome our new
Industry 4.0 partners from Fraunhofer (transfer of DFKI's digital product memory technology).

27/11/2014:Datagarten is a spin-off company of Fortiss GmbH. It is our most recent EIC-ICT Labs Innovation spinoff within the CPS for Smart Factories activity.

27/11/2014:For solving distributed parallel computations in a scalable manner that can still undergo optimisation, ELTE proposes the Task Oriented Programming (TOP) paradigm.
The international programmer workshop will take place in Budapest on December the 1st, 2014.

17/10/2014:DFKI unveils hand-writing and gesture based knowledge acquisition tool and the new smart factories knowledge portal at Siemens Headquarters, Munich. See architecture.